Compliance Program, Marketing and Prohibited Inducements

Sets the Agency’s compliance program: the Georgia ban on staff and their families steering patients into naming them in wills, trusts or insurance, taking out insurance on patients, or giving or lending things of value; factual, non-coercive advertising; fraud and abuse laws; referral and marketing integrity; and how concerns are reported and investigated without retaliation.

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About this policy

Policy number: GA-HSP-ETH-01
Version: 1.0
Main rule: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4)
Library: Georgia hospice · 60 policies
Category: Ethics
Sections: 18

In short

Never accept money, loans or valuable gifts from patients or families. Politely say no and tell your supervisor.
Never encourage anyone to name you or a colleague in a will, trust or insurance policy.
Our advertising must be factual. Never pressure anyone to choose our hospice.
Never offer or accept anything of value in return for referrals.
Report any compliance concern to the Administrator. You will not be punished for reporting in good faith.

What's inside

18 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.

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Terms of Reference
1. Purpose
2. Scope
3. Definitions
4. Policy Statement (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4))
5. Dealings With Patients and Families
6. Advertising and Marketing
7. Relationships With Referral Sources
8. Fraud and Abuse Laws
9. The Compliance Program
10. No Retaliation
11. Responsibilities
12. Records and Compliance Monitoring
13. Staff Training
14. References
15. Related Policies and Forms
16. Approval
17. Revision History

An inspector may ask

How do you make sure no staff member or family member of staff is named in a patient’s will or receives gifts or loans from a patient?
Show me your recent advertising. Who checks that it is factual and not misleading?

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Rules it follows

Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4)Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(5)(h)Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.04(2)O.C.G.A. §49-4-168 et seq.42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b(b)42 CFR §1001.95242 U.S.C. §1395nn31 U.S.C. §372942 U.S.C. §1320a-7

Forms included

GA-HSP-ETH-01-A Annual Compliance and Conflict of Interest Attestation

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